Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with this Fun and Educational Printable
Make Learning About MLK Day Engaging for Kids
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is right around the corner on January 16th! This national holiday celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provides a great opportunity to teach children about this iconic civil rights activist and his fight for equality. We’ve created a printable packed with activities to help make learning fun on MLK Day! Before we dive into celebrating MLK Day with this printable, please take a moment to pin this post to your homeschool board.
Jam-packed with Literacy, Math, and Critical Thinking Activities
This printable includes 15 pages of engaging activities aligned to Common Core standards for grades 1-5. Through puzzles, timelines, reading passages, and more, students will build literacy skills while learning about Dr. King’s life, the I Have a Dream speech, and the civil rights movement.
The Benefits of Using this Educational Printable
Using this printable on MLK Day or any other day of the year provides many benefits:
- Strengthens reading comprehension through nonfiction passages, vocabulary exercises, and more
- Develops math skills with word problems and timed multiplication activities
- Encourages critical thinking with cause and effect and sequencing challenges
- Sparks creativity through writing, coloring, and diagramming activities
- It makes learning about history and social justice issues engaging and interactive
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MLK JR. Learning PACK
Key History and Messages Taught
The content contained in this printable focuses on the most important events and messages from Dr. King’s life:
- Biographical facts and timeline of major milestones from his birth to assassination
- Excerpts from the I Have a Dream speech and other famous quotations
- Details on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington
- Overview of segregation and the peaceful resistance movement
Versatile Integration for Homeschool or School Use
This printable is versatile for parents and teachers alike. Its self-contained activities require no other resources besides a printer and make integration easy:
- Useful for independent or small group work
- Clear instructions and answer keys for flexible implementation
- Thought-provoking discussion questions included
- Supplements core ELA, social studies, and math standards
- Accommodates a wide range of grades and ability levels
Make This Martin Luther King Jr. Day Meaningful
Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides the perfect opportunity to instill your students with inspiration and hope through educating them about Dr. King’s life and enduring legacy. This printable allows children to celebrate this historic day in a hands-on, cross-curricular way while developing key literacy, math, critical thinking, and social studies skills across various ability levels.
The self-contained activities eliminate prep time for parents and teachers alike. Our printables have engaging content, activity variety, integrated reading, writing, sequencing, analyzing, and more, checking all the boxes we look for in homeschool curriculum supplements. Students will come away with meaningful takeaways about Dr. King’s remarkable impact on the United States.
Take learning beyond surface facts by downloading and utilizing this activity-packed MLK Day printable in your at-home or classroom.
